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3 Days 2 Nights in Tioman Island, Malaysia

SPENDING
PRECIOUS TIMES IN A HEAVEN PLACE WITH ANNOYING BUDDIES IS JUST PERFECT!

After
psychotically living in 3 sick weeks of final examinations, we escaped from the
reality to Tioman Island, Malaysia. (TOP RANKED in TRIPADVISOR, so it’s a must to visit!)

We planned
our trip a month before the date for real.
(p/s: husband materials. Tell your mama now!!! Hehehe…). We chose to
get services from an agent, RAHA LEGACY HOLIDAYS SDN BHD.

HERE ARE SOME REVIEW ABOUT OUR AGENT:For
us and from my personal point of view, the service was tiptop but what I saw in
the feedback on their page by the customers were so disturbing. Some of the
customer complained about their information service, they claimed that the
staff were late-responded to their email and questions. Peeps, we must
understand both side which the agent needs to deal with the people in the
island that live with low connection of internet. Plus, the process of
screening the rooms available also need some time. Not only taht, if
we ask for a package, have they needed to deal with some other people, for example,
the snorkeling people to schedule your vacation. So, just be patient and chill. Like us, we just
proceeded as what being told by the agent even though, yes the reply was quite
late but the process of our reservation was smooth and both parties were happy.
One more, every time I called them, they answered me promptly. Nice! So here I
would like to promote RAHA LEGACY HOLIDAYS SDN BHD. to your guys, my readers. They are good and affordable, trust me. I’ve
experienced it hahahahahah…

So, we
picked STANDARD QUAD SHARING package
atDAMAI TIOMAN RESORTwhich is
located at Kampung Genting, Tioman
Island. It’s only RM 390 per
person. EXPENSIVE? Read until my
last words in this post before make any conclusion.

Just so you
know, we are studying in MMU MELAKA, we took an Uber from MMU to
Melaka Central then a bus to Mersing Bus station and arrived at 9 pm. No
worry dudes, there is a lot of motel offers BudgetRoom for bujang-er like us. I
think I still keep the receipt, one second… Yes! MUARA INN, Mersing, Johore, costed only RM 60 for 2 single beds.

Day 1:

8:00 A.M is
our departure time but we need to be at the jetty an hour earlier. The ticket
was only RM35 for adult, (sorry, I couldn’t
remember the child price). It took 2 hours more or less to reach Kampung
Genting which is the first stop, so don’t miss it! No worry, they’ll announce it.

What a
shock awaited us when we reached there! Instead of the cozy place we knew so
well based on Mr. Google, the air, the sand, the sky, the breeze, all were so relieving.
It was an unbelievable sight to behold. We have made the right choice!

Food!!
Food!! Food!!

DamaiTioman Resort served the best. Our first lunch was so authentic yet truly
village-like dishes. It totally reminded us to our hometown hm...

We were
giving time to suit ourselves in the evening, because tomorrow will be
soooooooooooo tiring or in the other words, it’s time to be tanned!

We were
informed that we can see the coral just in front of our chalet. Dayum nice,
shaky legs, sweaty hand, half boiled head… Let’s go!!! But we are penakut sebenarnya, so we asked for
abang guard to guide us hahahahahaha…

Some people
say that beginners have all the luck; others claim that success comes only with
practices. So, the first time I jumped into the sea with life jacket and the
snorkeling equipment, I tried to swim to the deeper edge, I almost sank. In
addition to that, I had to bear the choking taste of salt water running into
all the opening of my body. Since I’m wearing the goggle, my eyes were not
smarted but my nose felt awful because of the sea water came into my air-tight
goggle. I tried to calm myself and enjoy the consequences while my friends…
yeah they left me behind… *sigh, I love
my buddies. If that as what is known as “beginner’s luck”, I would have
none of it. Dude, I can swimbut I never try
the snorkel gears, that’s all.

(I’m so sorry, I want to upload some video but
I can’t. I don’t know what the problem is)

We jumped from the jetty and I just don't believe that I did it. Lol!

Sorry, I
don’t have the picture of the coral, but believe me, it’s AMERZING. At night, I
don’t remember what we eat but still great!!! Lepaking at the beach, enjoying
the breeze then sleep. Ready for tomorrow, snorkeling at 9 AM.

DAMAI TIOMAN ISLAND; the foods are delicious and superb, the place is just nice, hygiene and good and the staff are extremely friendly!!!! We just love it to the moon and back. Nice place to stay in Tioman Island!! They also have free karaoke at night y'all!!

Day 2:

Guess what,
the snorkeling was postponed to 2 PM because of a family that just arrived on
11 AM, but gratefully the informed us earlier at 8 AM. So what did we do?
Practice snorkel until 11 and get tanned at the beach then had our lunch.(ONE
MORE THING! If we go at 9 AM, they will pack our lunch and bring it with
us, so we may have your lunch on the boat in the middle of the sea. Nice ha?)

Firststop,
MARINE PARK, unfortunately it wasn’t
as we expected, we assumed that there is a sea of coral but just a few of them
and some fishes. Not enough to make us impress but still good because the water
is crystal clear and some beautiful fishes appeared and swam with us. Huhuhu.

Ismail was struggling back there hahahaa

Second
stop, RENGGIS ISLAND. If just now
the coral that I mentioned above is AMERZING, but this time it’s the best of God
creations. We were astounded, stunned, mesmerized, surprised and ALMOST
cry when we saw the rainbow-like color corals that exist there. I lost my
words to described, just take a look at the pictures.

Thanks to Izzat for sacrificing his S7 Edge for all these pictures. :)

You know
what, we saw something that should not be seen there. A baby White Tip Shark just
came out from nowhere, swimming around us. Aiman came out with one simple equation
that scared our butt off. If there is a baby, there must be his mom somewhere. I still can imagine how rush were
we swimming back to the boat for real, and of course more sea water came into
my mouth. Thanks Aiman for reminding us that we may be in the shark-infested area,
but fortunately the guider said that the White Tip Shark here do not eat human.
Fuhhh…

Third stop,
TOMOK ISLAND, we exchanged it with
duty free shop because we don’t want to go there. Hahahahha… a level below RENGGIS ISLAND because this island mostly lived by TERUMBU KARANG which are
quite pale but enormous and big and huge and entah lah… tapi still lawa la..
serious serious !!!!

Not just
that, we also learnt WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU
GET PRICKED BY SEA URCHIN (LANDAK LAUT)? Hahahahahha....

The thorn
can’t be taken out because it’s gel-like thorn, so you need to break it down.
Take any hard thing, for example, the breath pipe which is your snorkeling
gears, hit the pricked places until it’s bleeding. That’s all we learnt hahaha…
the consequence is you CAN’T have a good sleep on that night. Susah nak
tidurlah senang cerita.

Woke up as
early as 5:30 AM, set up our goods and waited for our ferry on 7:00 AM then
went back home… happily.

BUT NOT FOR
ME… I went to Ismail’s house to continue my journey to Kuala Lumpur, the
Malaysia capital city.

***

So here I concluded, travelling with buddies
is the best time ever and ever hmmm… I couldn’t imagine if I don’t have them in my life. Yeah,
they are so annoying and irritating. I often get bullied, but they are my friends and
my family. Thanks pals for everything. Next time kita plan pergi Kundasang pula
okay! #moneyfly #duitbolehcari!

I wanted to say sorry for laughing at the part where you stated how "jakun" you were when you're in KL.. I just think it's a cute act of yours.. haha.. Anyways, the corals manage to mesmerize me and thanks for promoting the agent.. Would be checking them out when I'm planning for a vacay..:)